See, I told you I'd talk about something other than Benat! So first let me explain what MEA is. MEA is Minnesota Education Association. Which means that teachers throughout Minnesota get together and do whatever, but most importantly it means a four day weekend for students!
For MEA I went to Duluth with Upward Bound to visit colleges. Us upperclassmen took vans and the underclassmen took a bus. Why separate us? Because us older kids were spending the night in Duluth and the younger kids were not. But ya, so we went to Duluth and had a good time and also learned that maybe I will attend college in Minnesota after all!
Thursday:
Woke up early and headed to ICC to hop into a van and head towards Duluth! I sat next to Bailey who sat next to Wyatt. The three of us were in front of Kaitlin, Tim, and Jade who were in front of Hannah, Shawn and Jake (yes, the ex-boyfriend Jake). Sitting shot gun was Hallie and Julie was driving. It was a good ride though as usual I fell asleep. I don't know why but for some reason I just can't seem to stay awake when it comes to car trips longer than hour. Something even weirder is that I sleep better in cars/buses/planes/hotels better than I sleep at home. Usually it takes forever for me to fall asleep and I don't stay asleep! I don't understand, but whet ever! I guess I'm like a young child.
Anyways, let's get back to all that went down on Friday instead of talking about my sleeping habits (though maybe someday I will just sit and talk about sleeping). So we went straight to UMD (University of Minnesota Duluth) and although I've been on the tour there before I really enjoyed it this time. I wasn't expecting to enjoy it, because I just didn't want to like the campus. I wanted to hate the school so that I'd have a reason not to go there and would be able to justify going to school in some other state. Not that I hate Minnesota, just that I want to be able to go someplace further away and restart. Find out who I really am. This is just too close to home for me to be able to really feel like I could be my own person.
Once again, backs to the story! I wound up really enjoying campus, and the best part was that I met the physics teacher there!! Since it was MEA they had a big college fair at UMD so the different departments had their own booths set up. Well I was looking around the booths and I stumbled upon the physics booth. I love the teacher! He's from Russia, his name is Vitaly Vanchurin and he is ridiculously smarty and funny! The first thing he said to me was that I shouldn't do physics. We wound up having a pretty good conversation filled with laughter and whatnot. He asked me what I wanted to go in to and I told him that I wanted to go into astrophysics and asked what area of physics he was in. He is a theoretical physicist and is currently working on basically unraveling string theory and using it to explain how the universe came to be, and you know it'd also explain everything. Cause that's string theory!! He's also into cosmology. He tried to begin to explain what exactly he's doing but wound up telling me that I should first get a degree in physics, and go through several years of undergraduate work and stuff before I begin to understand the things at his level and there's really no way for him to explain it in a way that'd make sense to me, a young person who hasn't had any type of learning in physics besides what she's taught herself which isn't much. After talking to him I actually wound up changing my major! Yup!! I don't want to be an astrophysicist (he explained what it is better than Nate did, and it turns out that doesn't exactly fit what I want to do. It kinda fits but not really), I want to be a cosmologist. It better suits what I want and plus it just sounds so cool!! So I wound up liking the school and I don't want to, especially because they don't have skiing!! Well they have it but as a club and I want to ski varsity. One, because I could use a sports scholarship, and two because I want to take it seriously.
After UMD we went to this one place whose name I can't recall. We watched planes being built. OH! It was called Sirius or something. It was pretty cool and i enjoyed learning about it. I also learned that I'm never flying in a plane again because I see no way that those things should be able to stay up in the air. It just doesn't seem right!! I thought they were terrible beforehand, but now I'm just like:
I grabbed a bunch of magazines and copies of each so that I can send the extras to Max because he loves planes and wants to become a pilot and spends a lot of time doing plane stuff.
After that we went to the hotel and to check in and drop off our stuff. Afterwhich we went to the mall, and I had a little accident. Which is no surprise since I'm me and I'm constantly injuring myself! So what had happened was that we were susppose to meet back at the vans at 4:40, and well Bailey and I were in Barnes&Noble checking out the books and basically just nerding out. I mean it was bad. Well I looked at my phone and saw that it was 4:43. We started running through the mall and wound up circling the fountain in the middle of it like three times until we figured out which way to go. We finally figured out which way to go and we booked it that way! Just as we were hitting the food court Wyatt called me and asked where we were and told me they were outside the food court (perfect!) with the doors open and ready to go. I hung up, just as we burst through the doors into the outside world. I was just ahead of Bailey as we're sprinting full speed at the vans. I don't even slow down, just jump in as I yell "SORRY WE'RE LATE, BUT WE LOVE BOOKS!!!!!" and then face planted. Ya...apperently I didn't jump high enough because my legs slammed into the bottom of the van. My right leg took most of the force and wound up being bruised, lumpy, and missing some skin. My left leg was just a little bruised. I just laid on the floor of the ven hysterically laughing form the pain. I actually calmed down before everyone else did, they were still laughing as we pulled up to the Pizza Hut that we ate dinner at! The ride over there was uber painful. Every time we'd hit a bump it'd feel as if I was just slamming my leg into something.
After eating we went to a play at UMD. I can't remember the name but translated it means "The Bat" in german. It was really good, and surprisingly funny. I was kinda mad though because Bailey and I wound up with these awesome center stage balcony seats next to these cute college guys, and we had to move. Apparently we were too far from the rest of the UB group. We did that on purpose! They are not always the most well behaved group and I was just remembering when we were in New York and saw "Annie" on broadway and they were just immature. Which is why we didn't want to seat by them, plus our seat were really amazing! We had the perfect view. So that made me a bit mad.
Then we went back to the hotel and i took (failed) an online chem test, and whilst working a mathematical problem I ever so gently brushed my leg against the leg of the table. I literally fell to the ground clutching my leg. It still hurts. It's been over a week too....
Then at like midnight Wyatt called my phone to talk to Bailey because he wanted to apologize for acting like a child throughout the day. According to Bailey he acts like every time they're out in public. So she's on my phone with him and Jake texts me. Which was like really weird. Then he CALLED OUR ROOM. Apparently he was thinking of the South Dakota trip...you know, the trip where he started liking me....
Friday:
We got up early and went to St. Scholastica. Once again I wanted to hate it. I fell in love. It's a beautiful campus. They have everything a girl can want. Especially skiing. Apparently they love skiing there and I nearly died. I was so happy. They also have a really cool outdoor program thing that I can see myself being really involved in. The best part about the outdoors program is that they keep the prices really low. Don't worry I didn't just look at the athletic aspects, of the school. I also looked into the academic aspects of. They don't have physics but they do have chemistry and things such as sports medicine. Which is something I might maybe be interested in. Cause I want to keep in sports in my life forever, and I'm uber accident prone so I would be able to relate to the patients I may or may not have one day. At the same time I feel like I would get those patients who are just like me. As in they are terrible patients. I'm pretty sure my doctor hates me, and I have no idea why Allen keeps agreeing to see me. I suck at explaining my injuries and what hurts. I'm also a terrible judge of pain. Which sounds weird but really means that I'm so used to just sucking it up and saying "I'm fine" that when it comes time to actually explain it, I can't. So as penance I'd wind up with patients just like me. Anyways....
Ya, I really liked the campus and the people and the food and the school in general. Also according to Tim (my friend who just got accepted there and won a huge prestigious scholarship) students at St. Scholastica can take any classes they want at UMD. So I could go to St. Scholastica and still major in physics. Plus they have the option to create your own major. So who knows, maybe I'll find myself at St. Scholastica someday, maybe not. We'll see I suppose!!
Well thank you for reading this long rambling, tangent filled post!!
For MEA I went to Duluth with Upward Bound to visit colleges. Us upperclassmen took vans and the underclassmen took a bus. Why separate us? Because us older kids were spending the night in Duluth and the younger kids were not. But ya, so we went to Duluth and had a good time and also learned that maybe I will attend college in Minnesota after all!
Thursday:
Woke up early and headed to ICC to hop into a van and head towards Duluth! I sat next to Bailey who sat next to Wyatt. The three of us were in front of Kaitlin, Tim, and Jade who were in front of Hannah, Shawn and Jake (yes, the ex-boyfriend Jake). Sitting shot gun was Hallie and Julie was driving. It was a good ride though as usual I fell asleep. I don't know why but for some reason I just can't seem to stay awake when it comes to car trips longer than hour. Something even weirder is that I sleep better in cars/buses/planes/hotels better than I sleep at home. Usually it takes forever for me to fall asleep and I don't stay asleep! I don't understand, but whet ever! I guess I'm like a young child.
Anyways, let's get back to all that went down on Friday instead of talking about my sleeping habits (though maybe someday I will just sit and talk about sleeping). So we went straight to UMD (University of Minnesota Duluth) and although I've been on the tour there before I really enjoyed it this time. I wasn't expecting to enjoy it, because I just didn't want to like the campus. I wanted to hate the school so that I'd have a reason not to go there and would be able to justify going to school in some other state. Not that I hate Minnesota, just that I want to be able to go someplace further away and restart. Find out who I really am. This is just too close to home for me to be able to really feel like I could be my own person.
Once again, backs to the story! I wound up really enjoying campus, and the best part was that I met the physics teacher there!! Since it was MEA they had a big college fair at UMD so the different departments had their own booths set up. Well I was looking around the booths and I stumbled upon the physics booth. I love the teacher! He's from Russia, his name is Vitaly Vanchurin and he is ridiculously smarty and funny! The first thing he said to me was that I shouldn't do physics. We wound up having a pretty good conversation filled with laughter and whatnot. He asked me what I wanted to go in to and I told him that I wanted to go into astrophysics and asked what area of physics he was in. He is a theoretical physicist and is currently working on basically unraveling string theory and using it to explain how the universe came to be, and you know it'd also explain everything. Cause that's string theory!! He's also into cosmology. He tried to begin to explain what exactly he's doing but wound up telling me that I should first get a degree in physics, and go through several years of undergraduate work and stuff before I begin to understand the things at his level and there's really no way for him to explain it in a way that'd make sense to me, a young person who hasn't had any type of learning in physics besides what she's taught herself which isn't much. After talking to him I actually wound up changing my major! Yup!! I don't want to be an astrophysicist (he explained what it is better than Nate did, and it turns out that doesn't exactly fit what I want to do. It kinda fits but not really), I want to be a cosmologist. It better suits what I want and plus it just sounds so cool!! So I wound up liking the school and I don't want to, especially because they don't have skiing!! Well they have it but as a club and I want to ski varsity. One, because I could use a sports scholarship, and two because I want to take it seriously.
After UMD we went to this one place whose name I can't recall. We watched planes being built. OH! It was called Sirius or something. It was pretty cool and i enjoyed learning about it. I also learned that I'm never flying in a plane again because I see no way that those things should be able to stay up in the air. It just doesn't seem right!! I thought they were terrible beforehand, but now I'm just like:
 |
| No. NONONONONONONONONONNO! no |
After that we went to the hotel and to check in and drop off our stuff. Afterwhich we went to the mall, and I had a little accident. Which is no surprise since I'm me and I'm constantly injuring myself! So what had happened was that we were susppose to meet back at the vans at 4:40, and well Bailey and I were in Barnes&Noble checking out the books and basically just nerding out. I mean it was bad. Well I looked at my phone and saw that it was 4:43. We started running through the mall and wound up circling the fountain in the middle of it like three times until we figured out which way to go. We finally figured out which way to go and we booked it that way! Just as we were hitting the food court Wyatt called me and asked where we were and told me they were outside the food court (perfect!) with the doors open and ready to go. I hung up, just as we burst through the doors into the outside world. I was just ahead of Bailey as we're sprinting full speed at the vans. I don't even slow down, just jump in as I yell "SORRY WE'RE LATE, BUT WE LOVE BOOKS!!!!!" and then face planted. Ya...apperently I didn't jump high enough because my legs slammed into the bottom of the van. My right leg took most of the force and wound up being bruised, lumpy, and missing some skin. My left leg was just a little bruised. I just laid on the floor of the ven hysterically laughing form the pain. I actually calmed down before everyone else did, they were still laughing as we pulled up to the Pizza Hut that we ate dinner at! The ride over there was uber painful. Every time we'd hit a bump it'd feel as if I was just slamming my leg into something.
After eating we went to a play at UMD. I can't remember the name but translated it means "The Bat" in german. It was really good, and surprisingly funny. I was kinda mad though because Bailey and I wound up with these awesome center stage balcony seats next to these cute college guys, and we had to move. Apparently we were too far from the rest of the UB group. We did that on purpose! They are not always the most well behaved group and I was just remembering when we were in New York and saw "Annie" on broadway and they were just immature. Which is why we didn't want to seat by them, plus our seat were really amazing! We had the perfect view. So that made me a bit mad.
Then we went back to the hotel and i took (failed) an online chem test, and whilst working a mathematical problem I ever so gently brushed my leg against the leg of the table. I literally fell to the ground clutching my leg. It still hurts. It's been over a week too....
Then at like midnight Wyatt called my phone to talk to Bailey because he wanted to apologize for acting like a child throughout the day. According to Bailey he acts like every time they're out in public. So she's on my phone with him and Jake texts me. Which was like really weird. Then he CALLED OUR ROOM. Apparently he was thinking of the South Dakota trip...you know, the trip where he started liking me....
Friday:
We got up early and went to St. Scholastica. Once again I wanted to hate it. I fell in love. It's a beautiful campus. They have everything a girl can want. Especially skiing. Apparently they love skiing there and I nearly died. I was so happy. They also have a really cool outdoor program thing that I can see myself being really involved in. The best part about the outdoors program is that they keep the prices really low. Don't worry I didn't just look at the athletic aspects, of the school. I also looked into the academic aspects of. They don't have physics but they do have chemistry and things such as sports medicine. Which is something I might maybe be interested in. Cause I want to keep in sports in my life forever, and I'm uber accident prone so I would be able to relate to the patients I may or may not have one day. At the same time I feel like I would get those patients who are just like me. As in they are terrible patients. I'm pretty sure my doctor hates me, and I have no idea why Allen keeps agreeing to see me. I suck at explaining my injuries and what hurts. I'm also a terrible judge of pain. Which sounds weird but really means that I'm so used to just sucking it up and saying "I'm fine" that when it comes time to actually explain it, I can't. So as penance I'd wind up with patients just like me. Anyways....
Ya, I really liked the campus and the people and the food and the school in general. Also according to Tim (my friend who just got accepted there and won a huge prestigious scholarship) students at St. Scholastica can take any classes they want at UMD. So I could go to St. Scholastica and still major in physics. Plus they have the option to create your own major. So who knows, maybe I'll find myself at St. Scholastica someday, maybe not. We'll see I suppose!!
Well thank you for reading this long rambling, tangent filled post!!
Comments
Post a Comment